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  • Bristol part of state champion

       The Arena Gymnastics’ Level 8 Girls team won the New Jersey State Championship with a score of 112.875.    This is the third State Championship won by the girls. The girls won the Level 5 State Championships in 2003 and Level 7 State Championships in January.    Representing Arena in the 8 to 11 age group Jaine’…

  • Entertainment Staff

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  • Bulldog baseball team peaks at right time

    Hopewell Valley baseball By: Mike Molaro    After the Hopewell Valley Central High School baseball squad dropped a heartbreaking 5-4 eight-inning decision to Ewing on April 25, Ken Harrison hoped that his guys learned a painful but valuable lesson.    The Bulldogs (9-3 overall, 7-2 in the Colonial Valley Conference) have ripped off three straight victories since…

  • Meeting scheduled on budget

    Defeated school tab on Monday’s agenda. By: Melissa Hayes    The Township Council plans to review the defeated school budget Monday night, but it remains unclear whether the school board will attend.    The council has scheduled a special meeting for 6 p.m. Monday and has invited the Board of Education, but as of Wednesday afternoon before…

  • Hopewell officials OK budget, decline stream grant for park

    Budget, which totals $2,279,203.12, will require a tax-rate increase of 6 cents per $100 of assessed value, or 55 cents per $100 of assessed value. By Lauren Graham Delehey    On Monday, Hopewell Borough Council adopted the 2005 budget introduced at last month’s meeting, with one amendment, which increased the public library appropriation by $7,296 to…

  • NBC’s Timm, Nucera qualify for states

    By: Sean Moylan    Tuesday’s 165-223 victory over Burlington City was an historic one for the Bordentown Regional High School coed varsity golf team in that Eric Timm shot a 38 to qualify for the NJSIAA boys’ individual tournament and Lauren Nucera fired a 45 to make the girls’ tourney.    "Chris Mallett (who shot a 39…

  • The Meaning of L.I.F.E.

    Films screened at the Princeton Human Rights Film Festival point to hope and courage. By: Jillian Kalonick Sammy, left, and Nathaniel are one of the tutor-student teams in New Jersey State Prison profiled in How Do You Spell Murder?, screening as part of the Princeton Human Rights Film Festival.    In New Jersey State Prison in…

  • Survey says: Rail has support

    Organization questions reliability of train station study. By: Joseph Harvie    Nearly three quarters of the respondents to a voluntary survey on rail service said they would support construction of a train station in the township, according to results released Tuesday night by the Greater Mercer Transportation Management Association.    The Greater Mercer Transportation Management Association, which…

  • Moms program set May 11 in Hopewell Township

    HEALTH NOTES    Mothers have a chance to celebrate Mother’s Day twice this year — first, with their families this coming Sunday, then at the Hopewell Township Municipal Building on Wednesday, May 11, at 7 p.m.    Wednesday’s program is "Just for Moms Skin Care and Stress Relief."    Dr. Kate Thomsen will discuss some of the ways…